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    Looking good! See, you have plenty of room!

    You are so right about the epoxy going such a long way when spread by a squeegee! I learned that lesson when doing my bulkheads. I also learned that the second and third coats use a lot less epoxy than that first one.

    My plan is to mask off and pre-coat each side panel before putting them together (and obviously before the chine logs go on). Figure doing it that way is a better use of what space I do have.

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    Yikes, the epoxy's going off like superglue. I've just done the second coat and dare not leave even an hour before the next coat

    Richard

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    Three coats wet on wet applied. The last coat took only two pumps for each side Fanatics might look at it and whack on an extra coat but I'm happy ... and besides, I've run out of rollers and the cover was coming off the last one so I wasn't tempted to try to save it for another coat.

    Next job?
    A good one.
    A job that requires patience and care ...
    ... now I have to wait for the poxy to set

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    Well done, Richard. Your excitement is contagious - I am getting anxious to finish my present project and so be in a position to start my very first boat.

    soth

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    Hear, Hear!

    Masoth is spot on about the excitement. Nice to see it Richard.

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    Glued to side arms on to Bulkhead 3 this afternoon, which was fun. First off, the only lump of wood I had was about 1cm too wide so I took my freshly sharpened plane and made it right (it's always nice to sharpen something and have it turn out ... sharp ). Then it came to gluing. Well, I wasn't going to use a full batch so I dug out my electronic scales and made a half batch measuring the mixture by weight. That went well ... except that when I tipped up the bag of powder the first spurt missed the pot (I waste a lot of powder that way ). The first arm glued on nicely. I slathered muck all over the other arm, went to fit it and found I'd put the glue on the wrong side Ah well, out with the putty knife, scrape off all the glue, transfer it to the other side of the arm and clamped the thing in place.

    I gave up then and came inside ... besides it's time to take the lad to soccer then pick up my daughter from piano lessons then do the shopping then pick up the lad from soccer then cook dinner then read young miss a bed time story then break out the cask of rough red and poison myself for the evening ... only my fiance is coming over and I'll have to make polite conversation so she doesn't realise what I'm really like

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    "I gave up then and came inside ... besides it's time to take the lad to soccer then pick up my daughter from piano lessons then do the shopping then pick up the lad from soccer then cook dinner then read young miss a bed time story then break out the cask of rough red and poison myself for the evening ... only my fiance is coming over and I'll have to make polite conversation so she doesn't realise what I'm really like "

    So, you've got nothing to do then?
    You seem to be steaming along. Very impressed that you got three coats wet on wet. I didn't manage that ever on my build.....weather or commitments...so I got practice at sanding.
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    Well done Richard
    You are really making progress and you posts are very helpful and encouraging to me with my boat.
    I am a fair way behind you, I have the chine logs on, hopefully correct edge and still finishing bulkheads. Hope to get some photos soon on my thread about the Brissy boat
    Good to see you finding use for leftover timber too. I still feel guilty about going through the place and throwing out almost all the pieces of wood less than a foot long last year. (That confession will probably get me banned from the woodwork forum for life)
    Thank you
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    Tomtre, if I can throw in my two-bobs worth there, I know how you feel about off cuts, but you are right. You have to draw a line somewhere. Under a foot long is a very sensible line to draw in the ...wood (unless the grain is particularly nice). Anything longer can be useful, and giving a nice stick a second life just feels magic. Richard's Dad is represented in his boat because of his recycling. (see his earlier comments about wood from a bed) That kind of connection is beyond price.
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    I've been an offcut keeper for donkeys years. Every offcut that's not considered junk is tossed into a box. When the box is full (used to happen with model aeroplanes, hasn't happened yet with boats), I just empty the box and start again. Sure, it hurts emptying the box, especially as you usually need something from it the next day, but it fills up again.

    With the boat building though, it's amazing what you do use out of it - pads, wedges, etc

    Richard

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    Richard ... the Fiance ... wow - I hadn't noticed ... congrats

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    On a production side - offcuts are the devil - trying to use up offcuts wastes more labour time than the materials cost it saves.

    But when there is no labour cost the equation works out a bit differently.

    MIK

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    I couldn't count the number of old cabinet shops I've seen where the old coot running the place saved every piece of scrap since he set up shop, say, 40 years earlier. In those shops there is no place to work and just a path winding its way around the piles and stacks. Very very silly, IMO.

    At the opposite end of the spectrum I once worked at the Luhrs plant in St. Augustine. We had off-cuts of teak, teak plywood, acryrilc, Lexan, you name it, we had it. And we had a nice storage system for the larger off-cuts. Small ones were thrown out almost daily. Well, right around Xmas time we got instructions to throw out every off-cut in the shop! We were pulling out half-sheets of teak plywood and cutting up into small pieces and then to the dumpster. We were cutting up 3/8 inch thick Lexan and acrylic and tossing them, thousands of dollars worth of very valuable material. THAT made me sick!
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    Mid-Man, "................ we got instructions to throw out every off-cut in the shop! We were pulling out half-sheets of teak plywood and cutting up into small pieces and then to the dumpster. We were cutting up 3/8 inch thick Lexan and acrylic and tossing them, thousands of dollars worth of very valuable material.", that woud sicken me too - they sound more like 'cut-offs' not 'off-cuts'.
    Commercial decisions can be understood by the business owner, and naturally the cost of the waste probably had been factored into completed work and paid for by a customer, nevertheless a 'freebie' box on the street verge would have been popular, or even donation to a "men's shed" organization would have been preferable.

    soth

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    Efforts for today (friday): I remembered I had something vaguely boat like in the shed

    Richard
    seriously, that was it

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